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Knud Pedersen, plus connu sous son nom de plume Knut Hamsun , né le 4 août 1859 à Vågå, en Norvège et mort le 19 février 1952 à Nørholm , près de Grimstad, est un écrivain norvégien, lauréat du prix Nobel de littérature en 1920.

Son œuvre, rapprochée de la littérature moderniste, s'oppose au naturalisme pour reconstituer les mécanismes de la pensée. Elle dresse l'éloge d'une nature humaine libérée des contraintes sociales. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. août 1859 – 19. février 1952  •  Autres noms Knud Peterson Hamsun
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“fraudulent blue ozone”

Knut Hamsun livre Mystères

Mysteries

Knut Hamsun: Citations en anglais

“… I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.”

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Knut Hamsun livre Hunger

Source: Hunger

“I am not worthy to speak loudly of Adolf Hitler, nor do his life and deeds call for sentimental arousal. He was a warrior, a warrior for mankind, and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations. He was a reformer of the highest order, and his historical fate was that he lived in a time of unequalled cruelty, which felled him in the end. Thus the ordinary Western European may look upon Adolf Hitler. And we, his close followers, bow our heads at his death.”

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An obituary for Adolf Hitler, Aftenposten (7 May 1945)

“I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth."

"And which do you love best?"

"The dream.”

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Source: Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers

“Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.”

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Knut Hamsun livre Hunger

Source: Hunger

“Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?”

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Source: Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers

“But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.”

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Source: Ringen sluttet

“Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.”

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Knut Hamsun livre Hunger

Source: Hunger

“But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…”

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Knut Hamsun livre Mystères

Source: Mysteries

“And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me… everything was silent-everything. But upon the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the air, the distant, toneless humming which is never silent.”

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Knut Hamsun livre Hunger

Source: Hunger

“I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.”

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Knut Hamsun livre Mystères

Source: Mysteries

“But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.”

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Knut Hamsun livre Dreamers

Source: Dreamers

“The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible.”

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Knut Hamsun livre Hunger

Source: Hunger

“Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.”

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Knut Hamsun livre Hunger

Source: Hunger

“And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.”

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Knut Hamsun livre Victoria

Victoria (1898)

“In old age… we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.”

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Wanderers (1909)

“Nothing helped; I was fading helplessly away with open eyes, staring straight at the ceiling. Finally I stuck my forefinger in my mouth and took to sucking on it. Something began stirring in my brain, some thought in there scrambling to get out, a stark-staring mad idea: what if I gave a bite? And without a moment's hesitation I squeezed my eyes shut and clenched my teeth together. I jumped up. I was finally awake.”

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Knut Hamsun livre Hunger

Hunger (1890), p. 110

“All of this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania – that strange city no one escapes from until it has left its mark on him.”

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Opening lines of Hunger in Robert Bly's translation.

“It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him. . . .”

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Knut Hamsun livre Hunger

Part One - p.3 (Book opening line) [Page numbers per the 2016 Canongate Books Ltd. paperback edition (which incorporates the 1996 Sverre Lyngstad translation into English).]
Novels, Hunger (1890)

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